EFF And Carpathia Unveil MegaRetrieval, A Website Where “Legal” MegaoffbeatThe Electronic Frontier Foundation has taken a step in helping Megaupload users to get their data back. Although at the moment nothing can be done, the EFF and Carpathia Hosting have created a new website called MegaRetrieval in order to gather as much inf...
Sony Appoints Kaz Hirai As President And CEO, While Howard Stringer Becomes ChaigamesSony has appointed a new President and CEO after Howard Stringer announced that he’s going to back down from those positions. As the former CEO Stringer will become the Chairman of Board of Directors, Kazuo Hirai has been promoted after a series of &...
Rovio Mobile CEO: Piracy Is Not A Bad Thing, It Allowed Angry Birds To Grow ItsgamesThe creator of Angry Birds is taking a different approach when dealing with pirates as he’s not looking to legally pursue those who pirate Rovio content. CEO Mikael Hed said that piracy is “good” if it doesn’t go over  some boundar...
Megaupload User Data Will Not Be Deleted For At Least Two WeeksoffbeatYesterday we reported that the data on Megaupload’s servers might be deleted as soon as Thursday because the company has seen its assets frozen by the FBI and the Department of Justice. This means that the company cannot pay the two firms which are ...
Steve Jobs Is World’s Second Greatest Inventor, Shows MIT SurveyoffbeatIn a study conducted by the famous  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Thomas Edison was ranked the world’s greatest inventor of all time, while Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, ranked right behind the inventor of the electric light bulb....
Thailand To Become The First Nation That Supports Twitter’s New CensorshipoffbeatSome time ago we were writing about the new laws against piracy that in my opinion are going to shake the foundation of internet usage. Recently, Twitter announced that it will begin censoring tweets . It appears that this was the action Thai authorities...
Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, PayPal, And Others Form DMARC Alliance To KioffbeatSome of the biggest companies on the internet have formed an alliance that will seek to protect the users against phishing. This is a common practice for remote attackers who want to steal the personal information of email users. Such an email looks like i...
Megaupload’s Storage Partners May Begin Deleting Users’ Data As Of ToffbeatThe Megaupload saga doesn’t look like it’s going to end soon, but the users who were still hoping to get their data back will be very angry to hear that the content on the website’s servers will be deleted as soon as this Thursday. Accord...




















